Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:14:31 -0300


Em Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:56:08PM -0300, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes escreveu:
> Em Sex 15 Jun 2001 18:15, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > > Why the 2.4.5-ac series doesn't have merges from Linus 2.4.6-pre anymore?
> >
> > Because right now I dont consider the 2.4.6 page cache ext2 stuff safe
> > enough to merge. I'm letting someone else be the sucide squad.. so far it
> > looks like it is indeed fine but I want to wait and see more yet
>
> But wouldn't be safe/possible/viable to merge 2.4.6-pre partially, excluding
> the page cache stuff for the moment?
> IMHO, the 2.4.6-pre has important improvements, and it would be difficult to
> merge to it later.
> Just a stupid opinion. No offenses.

If you look closely, some of the good things in 2.4.6-pre3 were backported
by Marcelo and included in 2.4.5-ac15

- Arnaldo
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